Women's Affairs Reform Commission

The Women's Affairs Reform Commission (Bengali: নারীবিষয়ক সংস্কার কমিশন, romanized: Nārībiṣôẏôk Sôṅskār Kômiśôn) was established by the Yunus-led interim government in November 2024 with a purpose to prepare a report on the reasons behind the Women's equal rights, restoring their dignity & respect in society and reducing decrimination.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

They are the members of This commission.

In 19 April, 2025 following the commission's reform report was made public, it as been criticized by the public.^[6][7][8] The report contained 443 proposals on 15 different subjects,^[9] including marriage for women of all religions through uniform family law, recognition of sex workers as workers, removal of Muslim inheritance law, expanding the number of parliamentary seats to 600 and reserving 300 of those for women.^[10][11][12]

Many organizations opposed the proposals calling anti-religious, immoral, unconstitutional and undemocratic.^[13][14][15] Several Islamist parties have demanded abolishion and reform of the commission.^{[16][17][18][19]}

National Citizen Party (NCP) expressed it's dismay to some recommendations of the report of Women's Affairs Reform Commission, calling them "dialectal" to the social and religious values of Bangladesh and urged for constructive dialogue with representative stakeholders on this regard.^[20] Although, it's leaders were seen criticising Hefazat-e-Islam accusing violent rhetoric and hate speech against women in their rally over the report of the commission.^[21][22]

On May 16, counter protests were led by various leftist and feminist organisations.^[23][24]

• Constitutional Reform Commission
• Reform Commissions of Bangladesh